LAS618: Geographical Information System in Landscape Architecture / College of Built Environment

The course is designed as a ‘training ground’ to deal with the information science and technology used as a decision-making tool in real world practice of landscape architecture and exploit GIS as a tool to manage limited landscape resources vis-à-vis modern land development. It provides the theoretical and practical knowledge required to begin solving spatial problems and strategizing landscape resource optimization using desktop Geographic Information Systems. The content of the course is structured into landscape planning database design, formulating GIS Model Data for landscape resource optimization program, and testing model system on a study site. Among the highlights of the course is to expose GIS as a tool to provide information quickly and efficiently, to model different landscape planning scenarios and to evaluate a range of alternatives to facilitate decision making process.